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Wow, all these years I thought that conferences were attended to
gain a lot of knowledge in a short amount of time. During the three
STC conferences I've attended I was concerned with sprinting from
meeting to meeting so I could have a seat. By nightfall I was much
too exhausted to have sex and drink like many of the writers replying
to this thread. I agree that conferences are a perk among other things,
but I alway got a lot out of the STC conferences I attended.
If you don't like the subject matter, bitch and moan or work from within
to improve the agenda.
Bob Morrisette
writer -at- computer -dot- org
>
>And since when were conferences out of town for anything other than
>drinking, having sex and tooling around foreign towns? :-) Its called
>"networking."
>
>I always considered them a perk, not a right. If I wanted serious training,
>I went to something at the local University or an intensive week-long
>session. Conferences are for meeting, greeting, getting quick overviews,
>sharing some ideas, drinking, having sex (assuming you do that sort of
>thing), and getting to go to a city you might not otherwise get to go to.
>They also build a sense of community. Don't expect too much from a
>conference. And you get out of it what you put into it.
>
>Mary Deaton
>(206) 323-0701
>Used tech comm books: http://home.mindspring.com/~mmdeaton/default.htm
>
>
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